[MPlayer-G2-dev] the awakening, license changes and so on...

[Diego Biurrun]

Arpi writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 03:41:16PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> 
> > BTW: did you chose this time by purpose ? Knowing that Rich is currently
> > away ?
> > I know that when he comes back and reads these mails that the whole
> > situation will explode. (you both like flaming too much)
> 
> i didnt know that he is away, remember i did not read the mailing lists.
> anyway i dont really care of rich's flames^Kopinion...

Rich is in India until September IIRC.  You know that he is very
active in the Free Tibet movement and now he is on site, so to speak.

> > So what is it ?
> 
> - getting g2 api accepted as 'industial standard for linux/unix video/media'
>   something like oms, and later gstreamer and openquicktime wanted to
>   reach, with no much success.
>   we have to make it available for commercial users, otherwise they wont
>   spend their time developing/porting their codecs, demuxers etc for it.

But why would we want to offer them a cheap framework for their
proprietary codecs, drm, etc?  What was all the reverse engineering
for then?  We have come full circle.  Our video players are at least
as good as their Windows equivalents now and we have support for all
major formats.  We have started to build new and completely free
multimedia formats (Vorbis, snow, ffv1, mkv, nut, etc) so that we can
have a complete free multimedia infrastructure in the future.

Why do you want to hand the proprietary software makers more rope to
hang us with?  If they want to inflict their formats and DRM upon the
world they should at least have to work hard to do so and we should
not have a hand in it.

We should instead focus on promoting these formats, fight against
patents and DRM and take a more aggressive stance on things like CSS.

> - getting some money/hw/sponsorship to developers who need it to be able
>   to work on the code fulltime or at least more time.

I doubt we need a license change for that, see my other mail.

> > Please also note that neither iive, Alex nor Diego have replied to your mail
> so what are the conclusions? they refuse to support me? ok...

No conclusions.  I'm standing at the sidelines seeing what happens.

Diego